|| *Comments on the 1999 Memphis 200:* View the most recent comment <#18> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Darrell posted: 12.07.2005 - 12:24 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Rick Carelli suffered terrible injuries after he crashed early in the race. Yet he was able to come back a couple of years later and was very competitive in an underfunded effort. 2. J. Kircher posted: 04.19.2006 - 4:31 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) First career Truck win for Greg Biffle holding off Kevin Harvick who was looking for his first win also. 3. biffle16 posted: 03.24.2007 - 7:17 pm Rate this comment: (0) (17) Whoopie!!! Greg holds off those losers Harvick and Sauter to win. Life is good. 4. Darrell posted: 10.20.2007 - 1:22 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) Yeah, Jay Sauter is a loser. Never mind the fact he is the most talented of his family and was a championship contendor for years before he got saddled in crappy Bu$ch rides. The lack of knowledge you have is astounding biffle. 5. SK posted: 11.20.2007 - 8:27 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Ronnie Hornaday III's debut. 6. DieselDan posted: 12.11.2007 - 4:45 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) IMO, this track deserves a Cup date before Nashville, Gateway, or Las Vegas. Heck, take a date from Loudon and give it Memphis. 7. New England posted: 01.18.2008 - 12:59 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) No, don't take a date from Loudon. Take a date away from California Speedway. For every year since Loudon has been on the Cup Schedule, it has ALWAYS sold out and is quite a tough ticket for New Englanders to get. When was the last time that California has sold out. Plus, now that the track has a new ownership, maybe Bruton will add banking to the track to help with the ratings. 8. Mark O. posted: 08.02.2008 - 7:47 pm Rate this comment: (4) (0) Biffle16 is just some dumb kid who doesn't know anything...as long as his guy wins, he bounces up and down in his highchair regardless of the facts. 9. Darrell posted: 10.04.2008 - 4:48 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) Yeah I think he got banned or something. He went by a couple of other names, but he never seems to come around here any more. Oh well. No loss at all. 10. Schroeder51 posted: 03.02.2012 - 4:08 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Carelli tangled with Bobby Hamilton early in the race, denting in the right front fender on his truck and causing it to rub against the tire. He stayed out and going down the backstretch his tire went flat and he went into the wall almost at a head-on angle. Considering he suffered a basal skull fracture, it is miraculous he did not perish into the accident. 11. Matt posted: 02.13.2013 - 6:04 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) DNQ: Billy Venturini, Shane Jenkins, and Michael Dokken 12. 23andJoe posted: 04.04.2014 - 5:18 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) #00 crew chief: Ted Kennedy 13. RaceFanX posted: 09.19.2014 - 7:06 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor: #86 Stacy Compton- Royal Crown Cola / King of the Hill American Dream (same for Mesa Marin and Evergreen earlier in the season) Compton had cartoon star Hank Hill riding shotgun for this race complete with a paint job that made it look like two canisters of Stricklin Propane were hooked up to the gas tank. The sponsorship was a part of a sweepstakes RC Cola was running with the TV show at the time. Rick McCray's hood popped up under caution following a wreck, blocking his windshield completely. He immediately drove back to the pits slowly to have it put back down. 14. sk posted: 12.10.2016 - 9:47 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) After Carelli was airlifted to the hospital, he was described on air as "being awake and alert, and transferred to a hospital as a precaution." That underplayed the severity of his injuries by quite a margin, as it turned out. In a 2000 article for the L.A. Times, Shav Glick wrote: "After the collision, Carelli remembers, he tried to jerk his helmet off because he felt "claustrophobic." He knew something was wrong. Once he got his helmet off, he grabbed his face and saw the blood. He was bleeding, heavily, from his ears. "There was so much adrenalin rolling in me," he told the Denver Post. "I said, 'Whatever it was going to be, I'm not going to leave this world.' " ... He had suffered a concussion, a cracked skull, nerve damage, blood clots and considerable bleeding internally and through his ears. The skull fracture caused major vision problems and left him with no depth perception. Taken to the Elvis Presley Trauma Center, Carelli saw two of everything. He had double vision. He would remain hospitalized for 14 days, eight in intensive care. Over the next three weeks, he would lose about 25 pounds. Slowly and patiently, however, he would fully recover. Despite his numerous injuries, the rehabilitation process consisted largely of letting his head heal. There were no complications from a stretched carotid artery, which could have led to a stroke. Ear surgery was needed to restore his equilibrium and allow him to fly, but no other surgery was required. Tests showed the bleeding in his ears was from a ruptured blood vessel in his sinus cavity. Told that his double vision would last for about a year, Carelli said he was seeing as well as ever after only four months. Still, the accident so spooked his team owner, Marshall Chesrown, that Chesrown, as much a friend as an employer, folded the team. "In Marshall's defense, a couple of days into the hospital stay he turned to me and said, 'I don't ever want to see him in a race car again,' " [Rick's wife] Cathy Carelli told the Chicago Tribune. "It was a personal decision."" 15. Scott B posted: 12.11.2016 - 1:05 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) Hard to believe Rick Carelli would rebound from that to win a race the next season. 16. rm posted: 08.10.2017 - 6:42 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) DNQ info: 37. 35 Venturini Dokken and Jenkins never showed up on the NASCAR.com qualifying order, maybe they withdrew? 17. Bramblegrunt posted: 01.22.2018 - 7:51 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Perhaps an early chapter of the Harvick-Biffle rivalry which developed well into their Busch-Nationwide-Xfinity careers. The race was largely a great battle between these 2. Harvick 2 weeks after being one of the best at Mesa Marin was looking to close the deal here at Memphis but again would come up 1 position short to Greg who was able to close the deal on his first career win instead of Harvick. As stated this race was marred by the Carelli crash which happened right in the first quarter of the race. The race itself was a bit of a caution fest but aside from Carelli's hard crash most wrecks were simple spins. Rush's accident backing into the wall was also pretty hard but of course nowhere near to the level of Carellis. The sad portion of Carelli's crash was that it was entirely avoidable. He was involved in contact in the prior caution and had a bad tire rub after the restart, had he pitted and lost a couple laps, he would have been fine. But the tire came apart and the crash was just brutal. Jerry Kobza, who spun in the event, made his lone start of his higher-level NASCAR career 18. Rich posted: 09.19.2020 - 11:08 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Marty Reid and Benny Parsons were the commentators. Dave Burns and Amy East were the pit road reporters. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: